Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot.
For today’s news we have a great collection of useful Photography cheat-sheets, visit the resources for the full articles and download pages.
Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier
Here is a list of all the cheat sheets available from this resource: Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card; The Photographic Cheat Sheet by Gordon McKinney; 49 Photo Tips Cheat Sheet; Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card; Photography Cheat sheet; ...
Today we have a very special giveaway for our precious readers – five of the best and most popular design books currently available. Just have a look at the line up of books we have, the books are: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web, jQuery: Novice To Ninja, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, Digging into Wordpress and finally, Rocket Surgery.
Who wouldn’t want these on their bookshelf. Read further on in this post to find out how to enter and, hopefully, win these fantastic books.
Here is an overview of the books you can win:
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles ...
Wordpress is by far and away the most popular tag on Design Reviver Answers, which is not really a huge surprise considering how popular the CMS is. Below we have published some of the recent Wordpress questions that our readers have posted along with the always helpful answers.
It has been yet another good week on Answers, thanks for your support!
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Can anyone recommend a free wordpress shopping cart plugin?
This question was asked by Ajay.
Answer from Kopanomedia:
Take a look at this Simple WP Shopping Cart app:SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic and WP E-commerce. Features include AJAX cart functionality, a grid layout for products, and a flexible color scheme, ...
You could have the best website in the world with the best content ever, yet without a decent navigation system it would all be worthless. There are certain criteria you need to follow when designing your menu – it needs to only stands out and be obvious of its purpose, it also needs to match the style of your sites design and most importantly it needs to be usable, meaning your visitors can understand it and easily use it.
For today’s news we showcase the best in web design navigation and menus for your inspiration.
40 Creative Navigation Menus
In this article from ProBlogDesign they have pulled together some of the best designed navigation bars (both horizontal and vertical) to ...
The design community is choc-full of great blogs who publish articles that cover insightful tutorials, in-depth articles, impressive and inspirational showcases and an endless supply of free resources. It is a community unlike any other were the user is not only a reader but also a contributor, who in turn give something back to the community, through there own personal blogs and there design and development skills.
For today’s news we have collected and want to share five of the best articles from the design community in last week. We also are not only contributors, we are also readers as well, as is the nature of this great community.
E-Commerce Design Resources: The Ultimate Round-Up
E-commerce design requires much of the same design knowledge ...
This week a contentious and highly debatable question was asked on Answers and, as expected, we received a lot of great answers favorable for both sides. We felt it was such a good question that we are opening it up to our trusty Design Reviver readers to hopefully settle the issue.
So, here goes… What’s Better For Designing A Website, Photoshop Or Fireworks?
The original question was asked by Angela last Monday, and has so far received a hand-full of answers (you can read them below). We would love to hear your opinion, you can post it in the comments below or you can post an answer on the original questions thread here: What's Better For Designing A Website, Photoshop Or Fireworks?
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Choosing the perfect font can be one of the most difficult aspects of design. You will probably use one font for the logo, another for the headings and yet another for the content. And on top of that each design you create will have its own character and the font you choose will need to compliment it. Just how do you find that perfect font for that particular design?
For today’s news round-up we have collected the best and the freshest font collections to expand your font libraries and help you choose that perfect font.
30 Free Fonts Ideal for Business Logos
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20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings
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Fundamentally a web design has to convey a message or project a clear definition of meaning to the user within the first few seconds of landing on your site. Without a hook the chances are high that the user will simply pass by your site and will be just as quickly forgotten.
A popular trend at the moment is headline grabbing over-sized typography. This type of hook is unmissable and it helps the user focus there attention instantly on your site.
Now, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this – you can't just change your CSSes <h1> tag to 100px – and the typography showcases below show you how it can be and should be achieved.
55 Examples of Huge Typography in Web Design
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Everyday Design Reviver Answers is offering solutions via useful snippets of code, helpful resources and general tips for all your web design issues. And as such we would like to share with you our favorite code snippets from this last week.
It has been yet another good week, thanks for your support!
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How Can I Display More Than One Twitter Feed On My WordPress Blog?
We do this by accessing the persons Twitter account RSS feed, then fetching it and embedding it on your site.
Replace the example RSS’s with the ones you’d like.
get_item_quantity(3);
$rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
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No items.
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else
// Loop through each ...
Text effects seems to open up a can of creativity within artists that is unrivaled with any other aspect of graphic design. By taking the simplest form of text and a blank canvas you can create something amazing and at times awe-inspiring.
For today’s news round-up we have a small collection of amazing text effects and tutorials for Photoshop.
3D Typewriter Text
In this tutorial you’ll create some 3d typewriter hammer keys in Illustrator and mix them together with some painting techniques and the Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop to create a stylish multi-dimensional wallpaper.
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Photoshop Grungy Metal Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a text effect using textures from stock images. The final ...
